Arturo Herrero
Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Your line is open. Please go ahead
Thank you, Mr. Chen. Our reputation as a reliable and bankable company that offers high quality and competitive products with a proven track record resulted in a strong growth during Q1. We expect to see this continue in coming quarters in 2015 and we further build out upon the brand recognition with that and continue implementing a successful sales and marketing strategy. Especially these days our healthy financial and operational position and a strong balance sheet differentiate us when compared to some of our competitors. We continue to build our business around our loyal customers and we attract new ones by expanding our commercial operations both in size and geographic. We are growing our market share across diverse market including China, Europe, USA, Asia Pacific and emerging markets. Despite the seasonality in Q1, demand for JinkoSolar modules grew faster than expected with strong sales in China, the U.K., Japan, the USA, Turkey and Australia. We also enter into new countries in emerging markets in Q1. So module sales exceeded 700 megawatts that represents 16% more than the top-end of our guidance. We continue to diversify our customer portfolio as we rapidly expand our market share among the industrial, commercial and residential segments. This was on top of making inroads into several new markets including Turkey, Brazil, Central America and South American markets. During the first quarter 2015, we had sales in over 40 countries. Our presence in Europe and the USA continues to be strong despite anti-ramping and countervailing duties. Over 100 megawatt were sold in the U.K. alone. Another big portion of our shipments went to China allowing us to maintain the leading position there. We expect to achieve similar resource for the full year 2015 as we believe we will benefit from the Chinese government's continuous support and approved target of 17.8 gigawatt installations from the National Energy Administration. We announced in Q1, we said [Technical Difficulty] leasing together with RMB3 billion financing agreement from China Minsheng Bank. In India, the cabinet approved extra support for 15 gigawatt of PV capacity under the National Solar Mission with intension to install 100 gigawatts by 2022. In Japan, the feed-in tariff will be reduced by a total of 16% to $0.23 in July as for the previous reduction in April. Despite this reduction Japan feed-in tariff still remains one of the largest in the world with a high subsidy. We will keep establishing subsidies at manufacturing facilities remains our key strategy in developing long customer relationship and expanding our business in potent market. We are very positive about our process in South Africa where the government continues to support public tenders originally announcing Round 4, and extended Round 4 where we expect several of our customers to be selected. In the first quarter 2015, solar product shipments to the third parties amounted for a total of 789 megawatt consisting of 703 megawatt of solar modules over 53 megawatt of silicon wafers and 32 megawatt of solar cells. We delivered approximately 37% of solar modules to China, 13% to North America, around 22% to Europe, which includes 14% to the U.K., and 9% to emerging markets with 23% to Asia Pacific, remaining – Japan achieved over 100 megawatt. For 2015, we will continue to capitalize on the growing recognition of JinkoSolar brand and localize sales and marketing strategy to expand our market and diversify our customer portfolio and geographic presence. We continue to build a strong partnership network with distributors, PV developers and EPC constructors across the globe. For the first quarter we have signed some big new contracts including a contract with Swinerton Renewable Energy in the USA, IDEC in Japan, Tegnatia in Turkey among others. The rapid global expansion of our business has provided external exposure for the JinkoSolar brand in terms of marketing; we launched peer campaigns in the U.K., USA, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Brazil and Australia. And we have been a sponsors and being a speaker at SOLARPLAZA tours in several countries. During the quarter, we launched branding campaigns and attending over six solar and renewable energy exhibitions and conferences. In particular, we are happy to have been invited to the Bloomberg Renewable Energy Finance in New York. We have been sponsoring several events including MIREC in Mexico. Aside from that, we continue to benefit from the brand exposure of our closer partnership with solar PV. I like also to highlight our global agreement with DuPont. This demonstrates our determination to provide products with ISO standards. Our customers are very pleased with this agreement. Regarding ASP, in Q1 ASP decreased slightly due in part to competition, feed-in tariff cuts and impact of the deprecation of the euro and Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar. Our ASP during the quarter was over $0.58 on average, around $0.02 lower than the previous quarter. We see for next quarter stabilization of ASP or a slight decrease. Now, finally, I would like to turn the call over to Charlie, our CFO, who will go over our financial results and guidance for the second quarter 2015. Thank you very much.